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Assassin‘s Creed: Rogue
I‘m playing some AC Rogue and while I like the AC4 style gameplay… I had completely suppressed the memory of the shaking sprint camera, it bothers me sooo much
The Wandering Villiage. I just got it a couple days ago, absolutely loving it.
TWV is great. I’d recommend turning the difficulty right up as that’s when I had the most fun with it.
I’ve been playing a lot of SilkSong but I took a break today.
I loved Hollow Knight and I really really enjoy parts of Silk Song, but I am struggling with how punishing some of these fights and death runs are.
I’ve been playing Noita, it is difficult but great fun so far. I don’t think I’ve really even scratched the surface of what there is either.
I’ve been playing Borderlands 4 with a friend. It might not be the best comparison to compare late game BL3 with early game BL4, but some of the things they changed may have been a step back. For instance, now that the game is open world and surprisingly denser with enemy mobs than the old games, it can be harder to tell when you’ve finished off a group of enemies. My opinion on it might change by the end of the game though.
I started Citizen Sleeper at the recommendation of a friend. It’s a pretty simple management game loop with only a few RPG trappings thus far, and I wonder if or when they will start to put the squeeze on my resources.
I also got back into Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and I think I’m about halfway through. The combat is excellent when you nail it and land your parries, but it lacks the equivalent of a Souls game where you spend the beginning of the fight hanging back and learning an enemy’s patterns, and that can sometimes be frustrating.
I loved citizen sleeper, though I agree, if you’re smart, it’s pretty easy to fall into a loop of “as long as I X, I’ll never run out of resources” after you’ve found your way a little. Citizen Sleeper 2 addresses this by having you travel between stations, meaning for much of the game you’re a bit less sure of what comes from where, but it’s ultimately pretty formulaic in that regard. There are also timed away missions where you only have what resources you bring and you need to have the right skills and allies or there’s a very real chance of (varying degrees of success and) failure which has plot implications. It’s much more linear, telling a story, rather than your story. Many decisions have more implications for allies than you, and the endings are much less varied, which I won’t get into for spoiler reasons. That being said, I’m a fan of both. CS2 is strongly antifascist not just in the stories it tells, but also in that you’re often NOT the most important person in the room during a scene, even if you are enabling change around you. I’ve heard people complain that “you aren’t even around for the climax” of some arcs, though, in my opinion, it’s generally because you’re focused on your own shit. YOUR stakes are low in the video game sense, because they’re grounded and focused on you, even if higher stakes conflicts are going on nearby. I was a fan, though I understood the criticisms.
I went through a fucking spree earlier this week. Finished Metaphor: ReFantazio last weekend. It’s an RPG from Atlus, basically a fantasy Persona. Would recommend if you like those games. I also played through Lunistice, which is a short little platformer game. Only has a handful of levels, but fun and worth it for $5. Then I went into Mouthwashing blind and finished it in a single night. I knew absolutely nothing about that one except that I had only heard good things about it. Very good, but holy fucking shit is it heavy. Wanna recommend it, but it’s one of those games where you need to stare at a wall for a couple of hours to process everything it throws at you. And I’ve since started Shapez 2. An automation game like Factorio or Satisfactory, but it’s just Shapez. It makes the good chemicals in the brain go brrrrr. Would also recommend.
Trying to 100% re3 on the ps5
Trying No Man’s Sky for probably the third time. It’s clicked a bit better this time. I jumped back in because of the Corvette building, took me probably a week of evenings to finally be able to build one. It’s pretty darn good, I think it finally clicked. The storyline still feels like the longest checklist tutorial ever, 30+ hours in.
The Corvette update got me back in as well. 70 hours in on a new save. Building and upgrading my Corvette is soo much fun.
Titan quest 2! I love the genre but more recent titles have been lackluster or unengaging. I know it’s only in early access but I’m already liking it more than I liked D4 at any point
I’m looking forward to this one. Have you tried multiplayer yet? Or at the very least, is there an option in the menu for LAN, showing that offline multiplayer is a priority for them?
I’ve been playing Monster Sanctuary. It’s a Metroidvania Creature Collector that works surprisingly well.
I’m trying to get through the game before picking up Aethermancer, with is a Roguelike Creature Collector made by the same dev, and it launched a couple of weeks ago
If you like creature collector games, Cassette Beasts is the best one I played so far.
Currently playing Tokyo Xtreme Racer on PC and doing another playthrough of Ghost of Tsushima on PS5
I’ve been playing BAZR on my steam deck. A rom hack of Super Mario 64 that turns it into a roguelike deck builder. The B A Z and R buttons, instead of doing their original things, now activate corresponding cards in your hand for actions like jumps, punches, etc with a limited number of uses. It was initially very intimidating and difficult but after a few runs I’m starting to get wins in and unlocking new decks and characters. That being said I 120 starred (100%) the original, and the same for SM64DS, so I’m quite familiar with the stages, and the game expects you to be.
Every run gives you a random starting stage, which you can change away from by collecting every star or paying coins to change stages (higher cost the more stars remain). Ideally you want those coins for buying and upgrading cards. Getting a star gives you 20 coins, plus whatever you collected along the way, plus a bonus/penalty based on how long it took you. Collect 16 stars and you’re taken to a final level consisting of all three bowser stages, back to back. Don’t run out of jumps!
For the price of free I’d recommend it for anyone who has previously played SM64. I don’t think it would be a good introductory version of the game. Link for the curious
Unnamed Space Idle, kinda seems like I’m pretty much at the end of currently available content. Haven’t maxed out all the things, but it doesn’t seem like there’s much left after this. Though I do suspect that unlocking/maxing out the thingies I’m working on might take quite a while, could be the game gets some content update before that happens.
Rogue Trader. No idea really how far I’m into the game, I enjoy the setting, story… it’s just that the gameplay is maybe a bit tedious-ish. At first it seemed awesome when I got my ship and was let loose in the nearby systems, but I can’t help but to feel it’s the “Mass Effect’s planet scanning” again… at least there’s no Mako. I am playing on pretty much baby-mode just to get around the combat, as I’ve felt that’s been pretty tedious in other games from the same company.
Have you played owlcat’s other stuff? I got deep into Pathfinder Kingmaker but lost steam and stopped at some point. Have heard good things about wrath of the righteous, and would like some 40k content that actually explores that universe, but I kind of expect to have the same experience.
I have played Pathfinder: Kingmaker and Wrath of the Righteous, and ran out of motivation with both. I don’t remember either that well, it’s been quite a while since I played them, but I feel like Rogue Trader does share similarities with them. Overall… I do like the game, but man if it doesn’t require me to force myself to play it occasionally. 40k vibes are great, dunno if I’d care about the game if it wasn’t 40k.
I got to admit the warping between systems and exploring planets does get a bit old. I’m sure not all of it nescessary, but if it’s there, I gotta explore it, damnit. Most planets are just there to be scanned and they might have a spot where you plant a moneymaker. Some planets have some small area to walk around and do some skillchecks and most likely have some skirmish for small-ish rewards.
Plot areas are pretty big and have (usually) several moral compass tests, which are basically: “nah, let’s not kill everyone, everyone has good in them”, “I’m gonna burn you alive because religious reasons”, “give me your possessions and you might live”.
One that really makes my head explode is when your group spots a floor trap. If you don’t carefully walk each member around it, literally everyone will step into it otherwise. And there’s A LOT of these traps, though admittedly vast majority of them can be directly defused.
I’ve been playing through Jedi: Survivor. It runs poorly on PC, but is sometimes tolerable enough. It sucks to have that drawback, because the core game is expansive and a lot of fun once it gets going, with tons of exploration, tricky platforming, a variety of bosses, etc. I especially like that they managed to give one Jedi an even more bizarre set of combat stances even after the last game gave both double-edged and dual blade modes.
I’m also planning to pick up the Trails in the Sky remake. I played that game long after it came out and it somehow instilled a late sense of nostalgia in me. I tried recapturing that feeling with other JRPGs but few were living up to the story highs.
Rift breaker. It’s Factorio but better looking. And probably not as complex or well loved, but it’s not shallow either!
